Akpafu SHS lacks infrastructure

The Headmaster of the Akpafu Senior High School in the Hohoe Municipality, Mr. Theophilus Asravor, has appealed to the government to help address the infrastructure problem confronting the school, because the development is affecting effective teaching and learning.

He noted that even though the government had assisted the school in various ways, a lot more needed to be done to ensure the smooth administration of the school, and pointed out that the government had provided a storey building girls' hostel for the school, which he commended.

Mr. Asravor said uncompleted classroom projects in the school, and the lack of an administration block, as well as boys' hostel, was making the administration of the school more difficult, and stressed the need for the government to help provide the needed infrastructural facilities.

He said the most pressing needs of the school were a boys' hostel, administration block, and teachers' quarters, and noted that the current structure being used by the boys as a hostel, was an eyesore, and difficult to access, particularly during the rainy season.

The Headmaster explained that the situation, where some of the students live outside the school premises, was not the best, as it becomes difficult to effectively supervise them and promote discipline in the school. This, he noted, equally affects academic work of the school.

He continued that apart from the Headmaster and his assistant, all the teachers were living in rented premises at Hohoe, and attend school at Akpafu , which he said, did not only create inconveniences for the teachers, but also affects teaching and learning, and appealed to the government to help provide accommodation for the teachers.

Mr. Asravor stressed that because there was no administration block for the school, he shared an office with the general office of the school, where the secretarial activities of the school were conducted, and the teachers share spaces under trees, which serve as their common room.

He noted that because there was no library for the school, part of the storeroom of the school had been converted into a library, a development the Headmaster said was not healthy, as it was not spacious enough to accommodate the students.

Mr. Asravor also mentioned the problem of water that confronts the school during the dry season, as the only borehole in the school dries up, which compels the students to spend productive hours in search of water.

He however lauded the efforts of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) of the school, noting that recently the Association provided a number of mono-desks for the school, and again appealed to the government to help address the pressing infrastructural needs of the school.